Interconnect Billing

MACH provides a comprehensive interconnect billing solution, deployed through its wholesale service bureau. You benefit from dedicated service support, complete system management, reference data input tasks and CDR error investigations and corrections.

MACH:

• Establishes, manages and maintains all reference data
• Performs formatting, rating, discounting and billing
• Investigates and corrects error records
• Creates accurate monthly financial statements for all interconnect partners
• Manages all traffic types and call cases

With MACH there are no risky and expensive system upgrades, as we manage system configuration and data processing on your behalf for any service – saving you time, effort and significant cost and supporting extensive additional services in the form of rating, storage, data retrieval options and re-processing requirements.

With interconnect billing, it is generally accepted that, on average, the level of un-reconciled CDRs can reach up to 5% each month for many operators. MACH’s very low error and re-work rates help to minimize the financial loss which arises – another strong justification for outsourcing your interconnect billing processes.

Interconnect billing is one part of the value chain. It is also important to have streamlined processes linking your billing and settlement activities. In short, you need to ensure that every CDR is turned into cash.

The invoice handling cycle, as well as the interconnect settlement processes require dedicated and experienced staff. We have built one of the world’s leading financial clearing centers, where our highly trained experts perform end-to-end support services.

The fully integrated settlement solution allows you to outsource the complete bill-to-cash value chain process. MACH is the only managed service provider able to deliver such a complete interconnect settlement service.

MACH is recognized as the world’s leader in inter-operator financial settlement, with over 60% market share. You can benefit from this expertise and also from our extensive operator reach. Already more than 450 operator finance departments trust our expertise in settling their bills.

Save Cost:

• MACH’s managed service proposition delivers very low cost of ownership with optimal cash flow.
• No incremental hardware costs or upgrade requirements, as you have no software to maintain.

Save Time:

• No lengthy and risky implementation projects, no upgrades to worry about – leaving you free to focus on managing your interconnect business, while we manage the processes for you.

Save Effort:

• No specialist training or vendor specific system familiarization requirements for your staff.
• MACH manages your interconnect processes, leaving you free to manage your business.

Manage Margins:

• If you are a wireless operator, you can use MACH’s ‘Roaming Margin Analysis’ reports to determine roaming margins compared with your interconnection rates. This provides a financial measure but also helps you to develop your routing and steering of roaming strategies.

Best Quality of Service:

• Both in terms of latest technology and industry benchmarks.

Low Risk:

• We already perform 200Bn+ Roaming, Interconnect, Financial settlement and Messaging transaction activities every month and serve over 650 operators. We have built our reputation on dependability.

Dedicated Service:

• A dedicated 24x7 expert team provides services and support functions in several languages.

As mobile network operators derive an increasing portion of revenue and profits from digital content, there also exists a requirement to manage complex content value chains, integrating services involving multiple 3rd party providers, content owners and developers.

You require integrated settlement solutions that can integrate all aspects of interconnection, content partner settlement and partner relationship management. MACH’s wholesale service bureau infrastructure supports both interconnect billing and content settlement requirements, to assure revenue through this important channel.

Integrating MACH interconnect billing and content partner settlement, with our financial settlement, business intelligence and direct operator billing solutions creates a comprehensive interconnect and content revenue management solution, with which to take advantage of the revenue opportunities associated with digital content and mobile applications.

Key Benefits

• Route your traffic in the most economical way
• Enable your traffic traders to make the best deals by:
  • Comparing different carriers and traffic volumes
  • Limiting potential profit loss by comparing incoming and outgoing traffic (your pricelist versus 3rd party carrier prices)
  • Simulating the same traffic patterns over multiple numbering plans and prices per minute
• Enable your wholesale product managers to monitor costs and generate the best price plans

MACH Wholesale Service Bureau helps you to control your routing costs. The platform is designed to:

• Help your traders to close the best deals
• Help your product managers monitor traffic and create wholesale price plans
• Help your network department to make decisions about routing traffic